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Animal Psychophysics: the design and conduct of sensory experiments

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  • © 1970

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Editors:
  1. William C. Stebbins

    1. Kresge Hearing Research Institute, and Departments of Otorhinolaryngology and Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Principles of Animal Psychophysics

    • William C. Stebbins
    Pages 1-19

  3. The Measurement of Ultrasonic Hearing

    • John I. Dalland
    Pages 21-40

  4. Studies of Hearing and Hearing Loss in the Monkey

    • William C. Stebbins
    Pages 41-66

  5. Detectability of Tones in Quiet and in Noise by Rats and Monkeys

    • George Gourevitch
    Pages 67-97

  6. Psychophysical Testing of Neurologic Mutant Mice

    • Barbara A. Ray
    Pages 99-124

  7. Conditioned Suppression as an Animal Psychophysical Technique

    • James Smith
    Pages 125-159

  8. Response-Adjusting Stimulus Intensity

    • Peter B. Rosenberger
    Pages 161-184

  9. The Psychophysics of Pain and Analgesia in Animals

    • Bernard Weiss, Victor G. Laties
    Pages 185-210

  10. Thermal Reinforcement and Temperature Regulation

    • Harry J. Carlisle
    Pages 211-229

  11. Visual Discriminations in the Cat

    • Mark A. Berkley
    Pages 231-247

  12. Vision in Monkeys with Lesion of the Striate Cortex

    • Mitchell Glickstein, Susan Barrow, Erich Luschei
    Pages 249-258

  13. Investigations of Goldfish Color Vision

    • Dean Yager, Sylvia Thorpe
    Pages 259-275

  14. Reaction Time as an Index of Sensory Function

    • David B. Moody
    Pages 277-302

  15. Sensory Neurophysiology and Reaction Time Performance in Nonhuman Primates

    • Josef M. Miller, Joseph Kimm, Ben Clopton, Eberhard Fetz
    Pages 303-327

  16. The Use of Reaction Time in Monkeys for the Study of Information Processing

    • Robert W. Reynolds
    Pages 329-339

  17. The Psychophysical Study of Visual Motion Aftereffect Rate in Monkeys

    • Thomas R. Scott, W. Lloyd Milligan
    Pages 341-361

  18. Perception and Stimulus Generalization

    • Richard W. Malott, Marilyn Kay Malott
    Pages 363-400

  19. On Differential Stimulation and Differential Reinforcement

    • John A. Nevin
    Pages 401-423

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 425-433
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About this book

In May of 1969, the contributors to this book gathered at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for three days to talk about their work in the behavioral analysis of animal sensory function and to share their research experiences in the laboratory with particular emphasis on methodology in behavioral training, testing, and instrumentation. It was their feeling and mine as a consequence of this meeting that we had sufficient substance to justify a book which we hoped would be of interest and even of pragmatic value to any biologic or biomedical scientist whose work deals with sensory function. Clearly, there is no aspect of an organism's behavior that is not to some extent con­ trolled by environmental stimuli. In recent years, due in large part to technical advances in microscopy and histology and in electrophysiology, there have been several extremely informative published proceedings from conferences and symposia concerned with some of the early and very basic stages in the reception of environmental energy by the sense organs and its processing by the nervous system. Transduction at the receptor and stimulus coding by the nervous system, cell membrane changes, and the basic structure of the receptor and related tissue as seen through the electron and phase contrast microscope have received major attention, and exciting new discoveries in sen­ sory function and structure have been reported. Ultimately, such discoveries must be related to an intact behaving organism.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Kresge Hearing Research Institute, and Departments of Otorhinolaryngology and Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

    William C. Stebbins

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Animal Psychophysics: the design and conduct of sensory experiments

  • Editors: William C. Stebbins

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4514-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1970

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-4516-0Published: 09 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-4514-6Published: 21 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 433

  • Number of Illustrations: 208 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Zoology

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